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Then followed a tedious waiting.
At first thought, the situation did not appear very serious. If the _Bon-Pêcheur_ could not get off unassisted, she could easily be drawn into deep water by a few turns of the wheels of a tug. By good fortune the bar on which she had stranded was so hard that there was no fear of those shifting sands, which, now washed away, now washed back again, end by piling themselves up about a boat and holding her fast in their clutch.